Taking user input via EditText

Question

I am currently working on a simple hang man application as my first experience in Android dev. I am having a little problem taking in the user's guessed word. My current approach is for the user to enter their guess in an EditText field and then press a button that assigns it to a variable called userGuess. Here is the relevant part:

public void onClick(View view){
    EditText word;
    TextView myTxt = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.display_word);
    word = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.letter_guessed);
    userGuess = word.toString();
    System.out.println(userGuess);
}

However, when I print its value, I am greeted with the following:

System.out﹕ android.widget.EditText{23b92b5a VFED..CL .F...... 48,1064-213,1188 #7f080042 app:id/letter_guessed}

I believe that my problem lies in the casting of the word and am not sure if I am taking the correct approach.

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score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 19 '15 at 06:39

Simply just do this

public void onClick(View view){
    EditText word;
    TextView myTxt = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.display_word);
    word = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.letter_guessed);
    userGuess = word.getText().toString();
    System.out.println(userGuess);
}

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 19 '15 at 06:39

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You should use getText() to retrieve text from EditText.

word.getText().toString();

answered May 19 '15 at 06:39

Don Chakkappan

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 19 '15 at 06:41

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You should use word.getText().toString();

edited May 19 '15 at 06:41

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answered May 19 '15 at 06:39

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered May 19 '15 at 06:39

Instead of this code :

public void onClick(View view){
    EditText word;
    TextView myTxt = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.display_word);
    word = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.letter_guessed);
    userGuess = word.toString();
    System.out.println(userGuess);
}

Try using this:

EditText word= (EditText) findViewById(R.id.letter_guessed);
TextView myTxt = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.display_word);
String userGuess;

public void onClick(View view){

    userGuess = word.getText().toString();
    System.out.println(userGuess);
}

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered May 19 '15 at 06:39

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getText() is used to input from editText.

userGuess = word.getText().toString().Trim();

answered May 19 '15 at 06:39

Sam

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score 0 · Answer 6 · edited Jun 20 '15 at 12:34

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It can be solved by little changes in your code. Try:

userGuess = word.getText().toString();

edited Jun 20 '15 at 12:34

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answered May 19 '15 at 06:39

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Taking user input via EditText

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